Ulaanbaatar
Private hospitals to get government finance for hemodialysis treatment
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Hemodialysis treatment now can be performed by private hospitals with government finance. To eliminate long delays for the treatment, the Health Ministry started to realize this action, having made relevant studies and calculations.
The Ministry established an agreement with seven private hospitals, which have a license to perform hemodialysis therapy. In pursuance to the decision, private hospitals, including Lux dialysis, Intermed, Erin, ICU and UB med are currently serving to 70 patients with chronic kidney failure and Nart-Erdenes, Agape hospis hospitals will have 54 more patients. The agreement allows 120 patients to get constant hemodialysis treatment.
Patients with kidney failure will get hemodialysis treatment free of charge, while they used to pay MNT125 thousand for a one time treatment and MNT375 thousand for three times a week.
